Recently Play Blackpool took place in the Norbreck Castle on the Blackpool Coast. This is one of the top events in the Retro Gaming calendar, and this year didn’t disappoint. As well as the Classic Game Championship, there was a large set of retro games to play as well as some new retro style games, […]
On the surface, Taito Power Goal looks a pretty unremarkable football game. Historically, that’s certainly true. The game went largely unnoticed in the arcades of the mid-Nineties, with its digitised sprites thoroughly overshadowed by the flashy polygonal goodness of Virtua Striker, and its lone console conversion on the Saturn was just as unremarkable. The fact […]
Now here’s an idea. A range of 80s micro computers in Lego form. Sound good? Well it could be reality if enough people vote for them on the Lego Ideas site. This particular range by user ‘Fbsarts’ has been joined by my personal favourite 80s micro, the ZX Spectrum. A little, teeny weeny Lego Speccy. […]
Earlier this week, a new image (above) began floating around of the 1990 Tokyo Toy Show build of Sonic The Hedgehog. The image comes by way of the August 1990 issue of Japanese magazine MegaDrive Fan. As with any Sonic 1 prototype finding, a certain buzz flies around of “Is it real or is it […]